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Hospital Readmissions

January 10, 2019 - CMS, researchers, and other healthcare stakeholders have touted the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program (HRRP) touted as a success.
Under the authority of the Affordable Care Act, CMS launched the HRRP in 2010 to incentivize hospitals to reduce hospital readmissions among Medicare beneficiaries. The pay-for-performance penalizes hospitals up to three percent of their reimbursement...

Providers understand that high hospital readmission rates spell trouble for patient outcomes. But excessive rates may also threaten a hospital's financial health, especially in a value-based reimbursement...

Short and long-term mortality rates increased for Medicare beneficiaries hospitalized for heart failure after Medicare implemented the value-based penalty component of the Hospital Readmission Reduction Program (HRRP), a new JAMA...

A case study in American Health & Drug Benefits showed that Advocate Health Care, an accountable care organization in the Chicago area, reduced healthcare costs by $3,800 per patient, or $4.8 million in total, by implementing a...

Hospitals that serve greater volumes of African-American patients and those with more severe conditions are more likely to receive a value-based penalty under the Medicare Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program (HRRP), a new JAMA...

The Medicare Hospital Readmission Reduction Program currently determines value-based penalties on 30-day unplanned readmissions rates for six conditions. But the value-based reimbursement program may be missing a key condition that...

Safety-net hospitals have to work harder to avoid value-based penalties than other participants in a Medicare program designed to reduce hospital readmissions, a new study in Health Affairs indicates.
While safety-net hospitals have made...

Financial penalties may be the key to advancing value-based care goals, such as reducing hospital admissions, according to a recent study in the American Journal of Managed Care.
Almost two-thirds of hospital leaders stated that the...